“They appear to use it because there’s a short duration of the drug, we think of about four hours,” he says. “And at the end of the drug use, there’s a period of down. And they use it again and after 12, 16, 18 hours of this is when they sort of get to this delusional state.”

Legislation banning the possession, trafficking or manufacture of the products, which have the street name dove, easily cleared the House Judiciary Committee and awaits a House floor vote.